Mistakes Quotes
Sad Quotes about Mistakes

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein

Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho

I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business
in which no cumulative wisdom is gained:
each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
- Bill Cosby

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if
the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
- Cullen Hightower

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
- Peter Drucker

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes;
it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for
having witnessed your own.
- Jessamyn West

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes.
It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
- Steve Jobs

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
- Red Skelton

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made
and it motivates you to work even harder.
- Natalie Gulbis

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
- Bruce Lee

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and
try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes.
They're wrong.
With computers you make mistakes faster.
- Adam Osborne

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes
and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes,
I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
- Calvin Klein

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice.
And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune,
will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
- Jacques-Louis David

There are no mistakes, no coincidences.
All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We are personalities in the making, limited,
and grappling with things too high for us.
Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes,
but these mistakes need not be sins.
- E. Stanley Jones

We're looking as far ahead as we can,
and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
- Larry Niven

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
- Denis Waitley

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes
that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
- Carl Levin

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
- Peter McWilliams

I would like to be called an inspiration to people,
not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else.
When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
- Britney Spears

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
- Robert Downey, Jr.

You grow up by making mistakes.
I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better,
I don't mind.
- Joely Richardson

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past
in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
- E. T. Bell

Logic must look after itself.
In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes
while reminding us of what used to be.
- Gene Tierney

But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information,
they're fearless.
Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and
come back strong the next time.
- John McEnroe

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
- Edgar Bergen

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
- Les Brown

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion,
ambiguity and mistakes.
- Aldrich Ames

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren

We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.
- Ivan Allen

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity.
I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
- Ross Perot

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the
human condition there is no shame in being wrong,
only in failing to correct our mistakes.
- George Soros

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
- James Anthony Froude

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
- Loretta Young

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest,
adult way.
Boasting of glory does not make glory,
and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
- King Hussein

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that
I knew I was on to something.
- Ornette Coleman

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.
- Mickey Rivers

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace;
to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
- William Arthur Ward

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes.
The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
- Dale Turner

As long as the world is turning and spinning,
we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
- Mel Brooks

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention
to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those
who are wedded to a vision.
- Thomas Sowell

So many roads.
So many detours.
So many choices.
So many mistakes.
- Sarah Jessica Parker

We didn't make no mistakes.
We didn't make no mistakes.
- Joseph Jackson

We made some mistakes.
We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of,
and that cost some money.
Stuff like that.
But overall, we did really well.
- Robby Krieger

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast.
Delay only compounds mistakes.
- Donald Rumsfeld